‘Mosman Faces’ is a project to build a visual history of Mosman through filmed interviews and items from our Local History collection. The first series of ‘Mosman Faces’ features ten people who have shaped the Mosman community.
‘Mosman Voices’ makes recorded interviews from the Library’s oral history archives available to listen online. Excerpts are grouped by subject – such as the Second World War, Shops & Shopping, Mosman Musical Society – and can be heard online with an accompanying transcript.
The Carroll Collection consists of images of Mosman including photographs, drawings and maps covering the period 1789 to 1966. It was collected over many years by former Mayor, and amateur local historian, Dalton Jack Carroll and donated to Mosman Council in the 1950s.
The Local Studies Collection is located in the Mosman Room and is open during Library hours. The collection holds current and retrospective material on Mosman, people, places and events. Resources include books, serials, maps and plans, pictorial works, audiovisual, ephemera and CD-ROM resources.
A community-based Society that aims to promote the history and heritage of Mosman as well as Australian history in general.
Mosman Council presents this award-winning four-part look at the built heritage of Mosman written and presented by the well known architect, architectural historian, author and academic, Robert Irving OAM.
How many people live here? Who are we? What do we do? How do we live? Based on census data, the Community Profile and Atlas presents the key socio-demographic characteristics of Mosman through interactive maps and tables.